The Charles River Lectures on Probability and Related Topics will be hosted by Harvard University on Monday, October 2, 2017 in Cambridge, MA. The lectures are jointly organized by Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Microsoft Research New England for the benefit of the greater Boston area mathematics community. The event features five lectures…
Abstract: Integration against an intractable probability measure is among the fundamental challenges of Bayesian inference. A useful approach to this problem seeks a deterministic coupling of the measure of interest with a tractable "reference" measure (e.g., a standard Gaussian). This coupling is induced by a transport map, and enables direct simulation from the desired measure simply…
Abstract: Deep generative networks are powerful probabilistic models that consist of multiple stages of linear transformations (described by matrices) and non-linear, possibly random, functions (described generally by information channels). These models have gained great popularity due to their ability to characterize complex probabilistic relationships arising in a wide variety of inference problems. In this talk, we…
Abstract: As large tensor-variate data become increasingly common across applied machine learning and statistics, complex analysis methods for these data similarly increase in prevalence. Such a trend offers the opportunity to understand subtler and more meaningful features of the data that, ostensibly, could not be studied with simpler datasets or simpler methodologies. While promising, these advances…
Abstract: We examine consistency of the Gibbs posterior for dynamical systems using a classical idea in dynamical systems called the thermodynamic formalism in tracking dynamical systems. We state a variation formulation under which there is a unique posterior distribution of parameters as well as hidden states using using classic ideas from dynamical systems such as pressure and joinings.…
Abstract: Can learning theory, as we know it today, form a theoretical basis for neural networks. I will try to discuss this question in light of two new results -- one positive and one negative. Based on joint work with Roy Frostig, Vineet Gupta and Yoram Singer, and with Vitaly Feldman Biography: Amit Daniely is an Assistant…
Abstract: Markov chain Monte Carlo methods provide consistent approximations of integrals as the number of iterations goes to infinity. However, these estimators are generally biased after any fixed number of iterations, which complicates both parallel computation. In this talk I will explain how to remove this burn-in bias by using couplings of Markov chains and…
Abstract: Deep Learning, thanks mostly to Convolutional architectures, has recently transformed computer vision and speech recognition. Their ability to encode geometric stability priors, while offering enough expressive power, is at the core of their success. In such settings, geometric stability is expressed in terms of local deformations, and it is enforced thanks to localized convolutional operators…
The Charles River Lectures on Probability and Related Topics will be hosted by Harvard University on Monday, October 2, 2017 in Cambridge, MA. The lectures are jointly organized by Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Microsoft Research New England for the benefit of the greater Boston area mathematics community. The event features five lectures…
Abstract: Integration against an intractable probability measure is among the fundamental challenges of Bayesian inference. A useful approach to this problem seeks a deterministic coupling of the measure of interest with a tractable "reference" measure (e.g., a standard Gaussian). This coupling is induced by a transport map, and enables direct simulation from the desired measure simply…
Abstract: Deep generative networks are powerful probabilistic models that consist of multiple stages of linear transformations (described by matrices) and non-linear, possibly random, functions (described generally by information channels). These models have gained great popularity due to their ability to characterize complex probabilistic relationships arising in a wide variety of inference problems. In this talk, we…
Abstract: As large tensor-variate data become increasingly common across applied machine learning and statistics, complex analysis methods for these data similarly increase in prevalence. Such a trend offers the opportunity to understand subtler and more meaningful features of the data that, ostensibly, could not be studied with simpler datasets or simpler methodologies. While promising, these advances…
Abstract: We examine consistency of the Gibbs posterior for dynamical systems using a classical idea in dynamical systems called the thermodynamic formalism in tracking dynamical systems. We state a variation formulation under which there is a unique posterior distribution of parameters as well as hidden states using using classic ideas from dynamical systems such as pressure and joinings.…
Abstract: Can learning theory, as we know it today, form a theoretical basis for neural networks. I will try to discuss this question in light of two new results -- one positive and one negative. Based on joint work with Roy Frostig, Vineet Gupta and Yoram Singer, and with Vitaly Feldman Biography: Amit Daniely is an Assistant…
Abstract: Markov chain Monte Carlo methods provide consistent approximations of integrals as the number of iterations goes to infinity. However, these estimators are generally biased after any fixed number of iterations, which complicates both parallel computation. In this talk I will explain how to remove this burn-in bias by using couplings of Markov chains and…
Abstract: Deep Learning, thanks mostly to Convolutional architectures, has recently transformed computer vision and speech recognition. Their ability to encode geometric stability priors, while offering enough expressive power, is at the core of their success. In such settings, geometric stability is expressed in terms of local deformations, and it is enforced thanks to localized convolutional operators…
